The Oka Crisis The Oka Crisis (French: Crise d'Oka),[6][7][8] also known as the Mohawk Crisis[9] or Kanehsatà:ke Resistance (French: Résistance de Kanehsatà:ke),[1][10][11] was a land dispute between a group of Mohawk people and the town of Oka, Quebec, Canada, over plans to build a golf course on land known as "The Pines" which included an indigenous burial ground.
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Around 8:30 the front-end loader rammed the barricade. Then armed police officers moved into the Pines,[29] and gunshots were fired from both sides.[43] Then the police retreated, abandoning six cruisers and the front-end loader.
Before the raid, there were approximately 30 armed Mohawk in and around the barricade; following the gun battle, this number grew to 60–70 and later grew to 600.[2] The Mohawks seized six vehicles, including four police cars, and commandeered the front-end loader to crush the vehicles and use them to form a new barricade across Route 344.[44]
I can’t imagine the people in the US fighting for something important with that kind of dedication.